There is a season The life of an individual is characterized by different events that impact on him either positively or negatively. Different metaphors have been used to name our experiences in life. According to Parker Palmer “Life is like a game-some win, some lose”, and “Life is like a battlefield-you get the enemy or the enemy gets you.” These metaphors bring out the two opposite views of life, the positive and negative. The two can be compared using light and darkness. Humans need light and when natural light is not available, efforts are put in place to light different areas using artificial light. The positive side of the coin is what it is preferred by humans and they will try using any possible means to remain successful and avoid failure. The negative is avoided at all costs. In the article, “There is a season”, Parker Palmer brings out clearly the two sides by comparing them and how people view them. According to Palmer “One day you can get swept away on an updraft of hope telling yourself that things are getting better and better and on the next day you get swept under by a tidal wave of despair.” Palmer (1999) states that in the former situation, things are moving the way you want them to be and you seem very comfortable whereas in the latter, you can grow weary of the state when you are trapped in it for a long time and start looking for ways to escape. The same is seen with how we view our daily life occurrences. We feel as if we are in control of everything not considering that nature has its own course. There are two things here, man and nature. We assume that we are in control of any situation and occurrence. We believe that we can make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living and make love. On the other hand, there is nature. There are powers that we cannot control. You might want to make money from your agricultural produce, but in lack of good conditions such as moderate rainfall and appropriate temperature, all will be useless. This helps us to look at life from a different angle. According to Palmer “We are not alone in the universe. We are participants in the huge communication of being.” The different metaphors that have been developed to describe life are different in one way or another. “Life is like a battlefield, you get your enemy or your enemy gets you”, and “Life is a game, you either win or lose”, view life from only two sides. Win or lose, light or darkness. In this case, negative situation depict trouble and one’s plans might be ruined if he remains in the same state. “Life is like seasons” is a metaphor that views life in a totally different way. Palmer (1999) states that life in neither a game nor a battlefield of chance, but something infinitely richer, more promising, more real. In this context, life is viewed as a permanent cycle of seasons, autumn, spring, summer and winter and author illustrates life as a mixture of struggle or joy, loss or gain, darkness or light and encourages ...